Who:
Selecon Performance Lighting
What:
Design and manufacture of theatrical and entertainment lighting fixtures.
Where:
Auckland, New Zealand — HQ, R&D, manufacturing; Forest Hill, Maryland — sales, stocking and distribution; Enschede, The Netherlands — sales, stocking and distribution; with additional market support personnel located in the UK, Germany, Australia and Asia.
When:
Founded in 1969. Bought by Jeremy Collins, managing director, and Andrew Nichols,
director of research & development, in 1985.
Full time employees:
45
Number of products in catalog:
39
Clients of Note:
Frederick P. Rose Hall; Jazz at Lincoln Center, NY; Cirque du Soleil’s Ka, Luc LaFortune, LD; The Blue Man Group, Marc Brickman, LD.
Recent Projects of Note:
Smithsonian; Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts; Canadian Opera Company,
Canada; Royal Opera House, Stockholm, Sweden; Chita Rivera, The Dancer’s Life on Broadway.
Recent Company Highlight:
“We’re pretty happy that further stock and customer service investments in the States are meeting the growing U.S. market demand for Selecon theatre lighting products.”
Claim to Fame:
Association of British Theatre Technicians Awards for Rama and Performer ranges;
2005 EDDY Award for Lighting Product of the Year for the Hui Cyc; ETS-LDI Product of the Year: Lighting Entertainment 2004 for the Pacific 45-75 Zoomspot.
People might be surprised to know:
That Selecon Acclaim Fresnels are the fixtures on the stands lighting the “body” lying on the Louvre floor during that pivotal scene in The Da Vinci Code. “Move over, Tom Hanks and Jean Reno!”
